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...Kirk Kerkorian, 52, who built his $275 million fortune on airlines, hotels and Las Vegas gambling, last week added another potentially rich prize to his leisure and travel domain. He won control of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the ailing moviemaker, with a stunningly successful tender offer for some $26 million of its common stock at $42 a share. In August, Kerkorian had picked up 22% of MOM's stock through another tender. Now his holdings will rise to at least 32% and perhaps to as much as 45% of the company's shares, depending on how much...
...done with the students at Berkely just what Hitler tried to do with the Jews. He's made them the scapegoats for all the troubles in the state; he's turned all the people outside the university against them." By staying within Reagan's arena-or Hayakawa's or Kirk's or Pusey's-the students are spitting out their effort on the wrong targets: "as long as they stay inside the university arena, Reagan can be sure they won't spend any time asking what he's done about mental health or the desecration of the state...
Sunday, Aug. 24 (ABC, 8-10:45 p.m.): IS PARIS BURNING?, with Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Robert Stack, Orson Welles and half of the acting world...
Doesn't anyone want to be president of Columbia University? The job has been wide open ever since Grayson Kirk resigned after the convulsive student uprising 14 months ago. Informal overtures by Columbia's trustees have since been rebuffed by John Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Martin Meyerson, president of the State University of New York at Buffalo. Hopes recently rose when the trustees formally offered the post to Alexander Heard, 52, the able chancellor of Vanderbilt University (TIME, Aug. 1). But last week Heard too bowed out. "At this juncture," he wrote...
...only getting better and better. Wages are going higher, and hours are getting shorter. People have got to have a place to spend it." That is the basic business maxim of Kirk Kerkorian, the travel-and-leisure entrepreneur whose retiring manner belies the fact that in 20 years he has amassed a fortune estimated at $275 million...